Hi Friends,
I yesterday tried to flash my Desire S but now i have faced a huge problem.It shows and stopped in HTC log.
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Here i flashed with clockwork mode recovery.
Rooted using:su-3.0.5-efgh-signed.zip
and finally installed CWM v5.0.2.0.There i successfully fully backed up current ROM too.So far everything was fine and now started the scary part.
after that i downloaded MIUI.us_saga_v4_2.11.9_Eng_Deo_ZipA_Signed.zip and flashed with it.Everything went fine and no errors found and i kept whole night assuming it
would take time to get booted up.But i felt some thing is wrong and tried to restore my initial rom back up via CWM.But it restored with no erros but still stopped with HTC logo.
I did wipe date/factory reset,wipe cache partition, and wipe Dalvik cache and flashed CM 7.2 even result is same.And now i cant run adb where it shows no devices in fast-boot screen.
I feel i did a mistake by not using the boot.img in rom. isn't?Further any idea to make my back up work?
codefreaker00 said:
Hi Friends,
I yesterday tried to flash my Desire S but now i have faced a huge problem.It shows and stopped in HTC log.
*** UNLOCKED ***
SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0002
RADIO-3822.10.08.04_M
eMMC-boot
Aug 22 2011, 15:22:13
Here i flashed with clockwork mode recovery.
Rooted using:su-3.0.5-efgh-signed.zip
and finally installed CWM v5.0.2.0.There i successfully fully backed up current ROM too.So far everything was fine and now started the scary part.
after that i downloaded MIUI.us_saga_v4_2.11.9_Eng_Deo_ZipA_Signed.zip and flashed with it.Everything went fine and no errors found and i kept whole night assuming it
would take time to get booted up.But i felt some thing is wrong and tried to restore my initial rom back up via CWM.But it restored with no erros but still stopped with HTC logo.
I did wipe date/factory reset,wipe cache partition, and wipe Dalvik cache and flashed CM 7.2 even result is same.And now i cant run adb where it shows no devices in fast-boot screen.
I feel i did a mistake by not using the boot.img in rom. isn't?Further any idea to make my back up work?
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used to had that kind of problem...i had to pulled out battery, power + volume button to enter recovery....in recovery re-install the backup......(note: pulling battery is very dangerous as mention everywhere here)
That was a mistake, yes. But if you haven't flashed any boot.img since rooting your phone, I would have expected restoring the backup should have worked.
Or have you flashed a boot.img in between?
1. extract "boot.img" from inside the zip file of the ROM.
2. install the ROM
3. reboot into bootloader and goto fastboot
4. in your PC's command prompt run "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
check this for help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525100
I'm wondering, how many more threads like this can a forum tolerate. At any given time there are 2 threads like that on the front page of the forum. WTF? Should be THE most asked question since HTC released bootloader unlock - and people didn't learn to read/search yet.
FASTBOOT FLASH BOOT BOOT.IMG
Yes, that includes restoring from backups too. If you read that recovery can't flash kernels - it means IT CAN'T EVER FLASH ANY KERNEL FROM ANYWHERE.
Hi, So Ive unlocked, rooted, fashed CWM onto my one s, and last night I Flashed Pacman ROM and Gapps, and now its just stuck on the HTC quietly brilliant screen and wont go past that. I have to boot into bootloader to get out of it. Not sure how to get the ROM to boot. Thanks for any help
OnEnExUsOnE said:
Hi, So Ive unlocked, rooted, fashed CWM onto my one s, and last night I Flashed Pacman ROM and Gapps, and now its just stuck on the HTC quietly brilliant screen and wont go past that. I have to boot into bootloader to get out of it. Not sure how to get the ROM to boot. Thanks for any help
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You will have to flash the "boot.img" file which is in the rom's zip.
Put your phone in bootloader, connect it to PC and you should see FASTBOOT USB
Then put the boot.img file in your fastboot/adb directory, open the command prompt window there and type the following command
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Wipe cache and dalvik/cache too...
Then reboot your phone and enjoy.
moses.finney said:
You will have to flash the "boot.img" file which is in the rom's zip.
Put your phone in bootloader, connect it to PC and you should see FASTBOOT USB
Then put the boot.img file in your fastboot/adb directory, open the command prompt window there and type the following command
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Wipe cache and dalvik/cache too...
Then reboot your phone and enjoy.
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ok so I started from scratch and wiped everything. I installed the pacman zip from sd card, installed Gapps, and everything went fine. So since there isnt a way to get back into bootloader from the recovery I just rebooted the phone and since it was stuck on the HTC screen I had to do a hard reset to get back into bootloader. I then followed your instructions and flashed the boot.img and everything went fine, it said ok in the command prompt, I then went back into recovery and I wiped cache and dalvik cache and then rebooted. And now instead of just being stuck on the HTC screen, it is now in a boot loop with the HTC screen, just restarts and shows HTC, restarts and show HTC, restarts..etc..soooo not sure what to do now, I feel like I followed the instructions fine, but yet it still isnt working. ugh.. I just must be cursed or something.. Thank you again for the help. p.s. random question, do I need to be s-off? cuz I keep reading about s-off and s-on stuff, but ive not read anything about my phone needing to be s-off in order to flash these roms.
So now im really F***ed.. I tried wiping everything again so I could just restore my stock system that I backed up with nandroid while I waited for more help on how to solve this problem, and now its still stuck in the same f****ing bootloop and wont even restore my backup!! So now I dont even have a goddam phone! WTF!?!?! PLEASE HELP!
Well now I think Im really f***ed beyond my comprehension. Unless someone out there can do some miracle work, I think ive bricked my phone. While I was in the bootloader trying to fix the problem I posted in the post above this one, I accidentally pressed the volume down button one to many times and hit the Factory reset button instead of the recovery button, and now every time I try to wipe, or try to restore my nandroid it says "error mounting sdcard". So now even if i wasnt in the bootloop im in, I couldnt even restore my phone cuz apparently my sdcard wont mount anymore.. FML
OnEnExUsOnE said:
Well now I think Im really f***ed beyond my comprehension. Unless someone out there can do some miracle work, I think ive bricked my phone. While I was in the bootloader trying to fix the problem I posted in the post above this one, I accidentally pressed the volume down button one to many times and hit the Factory reset button instead of the recovery button, and now every time I try to wipe, or try to restore my nandroid it says "error mounting sdcard". So now even if i wasnt in the bootloop im in, I couldnt even restore my phone cuz apparently my sdcard wont mount anymore.. FML
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I've read somewhere in this forum that it is IMPOSSIBLE to brick this phone and fortunately, that might be true coz I've did too many things which I have NO idea about
It's just a soft brick.
I've faced the "error mounting sdcard"
Go to Recovery, and then in advanced options or somewhere (if you are using clockworkmod recovery) you will find mounts and storage option.
Scroll down and select Format sdcard option.
Then connect it to your PC.
In recovery, select the mount sdcard/USB storage option.
You will find a new disk drive in your PC. You can open it and transfer a new rom (if you have problem with adb/fastboot or flashing boot.img try with DARK S JELLY ROM LINK since for it you don't have to flash boot.img).
If you can't open the New Disk drive in your PC, right click and select format it.
Now, you can access your sdcard. Transfer the stuff and go back to recovery to flash it. Next time, clean cache and dalvik cache after flashing the rom and not after flashing the boot.img. Not sure but it might make a difference.
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OnEnExUsOnE said:
p.s. random question, do I need to be s-off? cuz I keep reading about s-off and s-on stuff, but ive not read anything about my phone needing to be s-off in order to flash these roms.
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No, you don't have to be S-OFF to flash these roms. You just need to be rooted.
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And try this All-in-One toolkit.
LINK
Install the HTC drivers on your PC if you haven't already.
After flashing a ROM in recovery, connect phone to PC, open this toolkit and select "Boot into Bootlader" option in the 'Commands' menu and it will put your phone into bootlader... then 'fastboot flash boot boot.img'
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so I found the "mounts and storage" menu in recovery, and I tried pressing "format /sdcard" and it said "Formatting /sdcard... error mounting /sdcard! skipping format... Done."
If I plug in my phone and select "mount USB storage" a window pops up and it says "you need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it." and gives me an option to format disk. Im really not sure if thats what I need to do? or even what I can do at this point.
so I found the "mounts and storage" menu in recovery, and I tried pressing "format /sdcard" and it said "Formatting /sdcard... error mounting /sdcard! skipping format... Done."
If I plug in my phone and select "mount USB storage" a window pops up and it says "you need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it." and gives me an option to format disk. Im really not sure if thats what I need to do? or even what I can do at this point.
OnEnExUsOnE said:
so I found the "mounts and storage" menu in recovery, and I tried pressing "format /sdcard" and it said "Formatting /sdcard... error mounting /sdcard! skipping format... Done."
If I plug in my phone and select "mount USB storage" a window pops up and it says "you need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it." and gives me an option to format disk. Im really not sure if thats what I need to do? or even what I can do at this point.
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Flash stock recovery
In Bootloader select Clear Storage
Then you can Flash your TWRP or CWM and the sd card should be able to mount again.
So I downloaded a stock recovery, flashed that, then hit clear storage and my phone restart and showed a weird image of like a phone with 2 revolving arrows above it. and then i went back into bootloader, went into fastboot, and re flashed CWM. I then went to recovery and tried to mount the sd card and still same error as above. So I just decided to go to "mount usb storage" and then format the sd card from the window that popped up, (I have nothing on there really anyway, I copied my nandroid to my comp and that was really the only important thing on there). and now the sd card can mount, there just isnt anything on it now. so back to the original problem now.. I tried installing cyanogenmod while the dark jelly downloaded. I deleted the asserts with that, it installed fine. but back to bootloop. Dark jelly downloaded, in installed it, it went throught the whole install setup and everything, said it installed fine, but back to bootloop. It seems like im just going to be forever stuck in this goddam bootloop...
Well, this is something I never came across. But, you can't say you are bricked as long as you have access to fastboot and recovery. Ask some senior members, they might be able to help you
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Well, try this. Try formatting everything in the recovery, system files, devlog, cahce, and all.... Including sdcard. Then mount usb storage and copy ROM and start afresh. May be some system file is obstructing your boot. This formatting will not wipe your revovery or fastboot, dont worry.
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I formatted everything, cache, data, sdcard, system, devlog, did a full wipe, wiped cache, wiped dalvik, put dark jelly on sdcard, installed, back to bootloop :'( How do I go about talking to a senior member? I tried PM'ing one a couple weeks ago and havent heard anything back. Is there someone you would reccommend? Thank you for trying to help me btw, I appreciate your efforts
OnEnExUsOnE said:
I formatted everything, cache, data, sdcard, system, devlog, did a full wipe, wiped cache, wiped dalvik, put dark jelly on sdcard, installed, back to bootloop :'( How do I go about talking to a senior member? I tried PM'ing one a couple weeks ago and havent heard anything back. Is there someone you would reccommend? Thank you for trying to help me btw, I appreciate your efforts
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Go to your bootloader and type what you see. I'm wondering what Hboot particularly.
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And then the rest is just the regular options.
OnEnExUsOnE said:
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And then the rest is just the regular options.
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That's your problem,(the original bootloop) you need to update your firmware. Your hboot will go from 1.14 to 2.15. So look into finding a Jellybean RUU.exe (if your particular CID # has this update) or Run your older RUU.exe and go to settings and update it OTA.
http://androidforums.com/one-s-all-things-root/691874-guide-how-run-ruu-your-htc-one-s.html
or the Non RUU way to update the firmware.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322755
any help?
any help for me: i have quite similar problem as buddy who created this tread. i´ve unlocked bootloader but then i wasn´s able to flash any room correctly.. I´ve tried millions ways but none worked. at the begginig i got stuck on loading screen of that ROM.. later my display just turn off straight after HTC logo screen. Here is my stats from bootloader:
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Mar 4 2013, 18:02:08:-1
any help? advice?
ali8ali said:
any help for me: i have quite similar problem as buddy who created this tread. i´ve unlocked bootloader but then i wasn´s able to flash any room correctly.. I´ve tried millions ways but none worked. at the begginig i got stuck on loading screen of that ROM.. later my display just turn off straight after HTC logo screen. Here is my stats from bootloader:
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HBOOT-3.01.0000
RADIO-16.11.20.24_M
OpenDSP-v11.6.0.2235.00.0304
eMMC-boot
Mar 4 2013, 18:02:08:-1
any help? advice?
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There are two versions of One S-
One S Ville(S4) and One S Ville C2(S3)
Go to One S C2 Android development section and try ROMs from there. Don't flash S4 ROMs on S3 version.
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OnEnExUsOnE said:
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And then the rest is just the regular options.
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did you get to fix this problem am kind of in the same boat
Ok so I am SOOOOO close!! I updated my RUU to the 2.15 and everything went fine. After everything was done, I tried flashing the dark jelly s ROM and it actually got past the HTC boot screen and went to the cyanogenmod boot animation, but then after a few seconds it crashed and went back into bootloop. So I wiped everything again, and just tried flashing CM 10.1 ROM and that actually WORKED!!! It booted up and finally turned back into a phone!! YAY!! BUT.. for some reason there was no Wifi, its not that it just wouldnt connect, it actually wouldnt turn on at all like it wasnt even available or something. So, thinking that everything was solved and fixed, I booted back into recovery and wiped everything to try and flash the very original ROM that gave me my original problem.. the Pacman ROM.. So I flashed the ROM and Gapps, then booted back into bootloader and flashed the boot.img cuz thats what the install instructions (and Chins6509) told me to I needed to do for this ROM. And unfortunately doing this put me right back into bootloop So I tried wiping everything and re-flashing the CM ROM that actually worked, and Im still stuck in this goddamn bootloop and cant figure out how to get out of it again. I just dont understand what the hell it is about this Pacman ROM and this boot.img that keeps screwing everything up. IM SO CLOSE TO GETTING THIS THING FIGURED OUT!!
tivofool said:
Go to your bootloader and type what you see. I'm wondering what Hboot particularly.
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I have HTC ONE X. I am trying to flash pacman 4.3 build/4.4 alpha ROM. But everytym i flash these ROM I stuck at pacman logo screen. Though i had gone through standard procedure of flashing lyk wiping cache and dalvik. Dont know what's the problem is plzz help. I have HBOOT 1.72, TWRP 2.7.0
So here's what happened. I installed MaximusHD and it works fine. But now im looking to upgrade to 4.4, so i tried flashing a 4.4 rom, and the recovery gives me errors. So i tried the red dragon elite method to fix my SD card. All i did was plug in my phone and flash stock recovery and then CWM again.
Thats when a new, very troublesome method started. When I'm in my recovery my computer says that my sdcard only has 48 megabytes free, but when i boot into android my computer says there's 11 Gigabytes free. Also I've noticed that there was a completely different list of folders when I'm in recovery.
When boot into android my phone shows normal folders (Android, Music, Media, all the usual stuff). But once im in recovery, all it shows is clockworkmod and my SD is only 48MB
I've also tried TWRP and CWM with no luck. Please help, I'm stuck on Maximus :crying:
XxbloodxrushxX said:
So here's what happened. I installed MaximusHD and it works fine. But now im looking to upgrade to 4.4, so i tried flashing a 4.4 rom, and the recovery gives me errors. So i tried the red dragon elite method to fix my SD card. All i did was plug in my phone and flash stock recovery and then CWM again.
Thats when a new, very troublesome method started. When I'm in my recovery my computer says that my sdcard only has 48 megabytes free, but when i boot into android my computer says there's 11 Gigabytes free. Also I've noticed that there was a completely different list of folders when I'm in recovery.
When boot into android my phone shows normal folders (Android, Music, Media, all the usual stuff). But once im in recovery, all it shows is clockworkmod and my SD is only 48MB
I've also tried TWRP and CWM with no luck. Please help, I'm stuck on Maximus :crying:
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I take it you are s-off already?
What 4.4 rom are you trying to flash?
When you are flashing the 4.4 rom, what goes wrong? Do you successfully flash the rom and go into a bootloop or do you not manage to flash the rom at all?
Can you post a screenshot of what your computer sees when you are in recovery?
Also can you post a picture or type up of your white bootloader screen, if you're not sure what i mean, mine starts by saying:
tampered
unlocked
vle pvt ship s-off rl
tomk11 said:
I take it you are s-off already?
What 4.4 rom are you trying to flash?
When you are flashing the 4.4 rom, what goes wrong? Do you successfully flash the rom and go into a bootloop or do you not manage to flash the rom at all?
Can you post a screenshot of what your computer sees when you are in recovery?
Also can you post a picture or type up of your white bootloader screen, if you're not sure what i mean, mine starts by saying:
tampered
unlocked
vle pvt ship s-off rl
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I've attached the screenshots, a big problem is in recovery it shows different files versus when its booted into OS.
In recovery it says 48MB free and shows /sdcard -> TWRP. thats it. and /internal_sdcard is blank.
but when i boot into OS i have 12GB free and i see normal folders like Downloads, music, media, etc.
XxbloodxrushxX said:
So here's what happened. I installed MaximusHD and it works fine. But now im looking to upgrade to 4.4, so i tried flashing a 4.4 rom, and the recovery gives me errors. So i tried the red dragon elite method to fix my SD card. All i did was plug in my phone and flash stock recovery and then CWM again.
Thats when a new, very troublesome method started. When I'm in my recovery my computer says that my sdcard only has 48 megabytes free, but when i boot into android my computer says there's 11 Gigabytes free. Also I've noticed that there was a completely different list of folders when I'm in recovery.
When boot into android my phone shows normal folders (Android, Music, Media, all the usual stuff). But once im in recovery, all it shows is clockworkmod and my SD is only 48MB
I've also tried TWRP and CWM with no luck. Please help, I'm stuck on Maximus :crying:
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just FYI, you need to use the TWRP recovery posted in the original post of the Maximus thread. Any other version of TWRP or CWM will not work.
tivofool said:
just FYI, you need to use the TWRP recovery posted in the original post of the Maximus thread. Any other version of TWRP or CWM will not work.
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Thank you so much! this fixed my problem! :laugh: